CVE-2018-14042

Exp

In Bootstrap before 4.1.2, XSS is possible in the data-container property of tooltip.

Published: 2018-07-13 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
View at NVD, CVE.org, EUVD

CVE-2018-14042 is rated High Exploit Risk (72.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.99%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.72% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2018-14042

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2018-14042

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 2.28% 3.99% +1.72%
2 2026-03-04 4.43% 2.28% -2.15%
3 2026-03-01 — 4.43% —

Full EPSS history (46 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2018-14042

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.1 3.0 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 2.7 [email protected]
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2018-14042

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2018-14042

GHSA-7mvr-5x2g-wfc8 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: rubygems — Bootstrap Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

OS Trackers for CVE-2018-14042

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2018-14042 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (twitter-bootstrap3), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14042
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14042
ubuntu medium CVE-2018-14042 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (twitter-bootstrap, twitter-bootstrap3), 40 status rows across 20 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 15, not-affected 14, ignored 5, needs-triage 4, needed 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-14042

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2018-14042

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
getbootstrap bootstrap < 3.4.0 cpe:2.3:a:getbootstrap:bootstrap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
getbootstrap bootstrap >= 4.0.0, < 4.1.2 cpe:2.3:a:getbootstrap:bootstrap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
getbootstrap bootstrap 4.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:getbootstrap:bootstrap:4.0.0:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:*
getbootstrap bootstrap 4.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:getbootstrap:bootstrap:4.0.0:alpha2:*:*:*:*:*:*
getbootstrap bootstrap 4.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:getbootstrap:bootstrap:4.0.0:alpha3:*:*:*:*:*:*
getbootstrap bootstrap 4.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:getbootstrap:bootstrap:4.0.0:alpha4:*:*:*:*:*:*
getbootstrap bootstrap 4.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:getbootstrap:bootstrap:4.0.0:alpha5:*:*:*:*:*:*
getbootstrap bootstrap 4.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:getbootstrap:bootstrap:4.0.0:alpha6:*:*:*:*:*:*
getbootstrap bootstrap 4.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:getbootstrap:bootstrap:4.0.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
getbootstrap bootstrap 4.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:getbootstrap:bootstrap:4.0.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
getbootstrap bootstrap 4.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:getbootstrap:bootstrap:4.0.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2018-14042

URL Tags
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156743/OctoberCMS-Insecure-Dependencies.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/May/10
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/May/11
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/May/13
https://blog.getbootstrap.com/2018/07/12/bootstrap-4-1-2/ Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/26423 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/26628 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/26630 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/519eb0fd45642dcecd9ff74cb3e71c20a4753f7d82e2f07864b5108f%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/52e0e6b5df827ee7f1e68f7cc3babe61af3b2160f5d74a85469b7b0e%40%3Cdev.superset.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b0656d359c7d40ec9f39c8cc61bca66802ef9a2a12ee199f5b0c1442%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9bc3e55f4e28d1dcd1a69aae6d53e609a758e34d2869b4d798e13cc%40%3Cissues.drill.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3dc0cac8d856bca02bd6997355d7ff83027dcfc82f8646a29b89b714%40%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd0e44e8ef71eeaaa3cf3d1b8b41eb25894372e2995ec908ce7624d26%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/18
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-14
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